bizcocho
Spanish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish biscocho, from Early Medieval Latin biscoctus (literally “twice baked”). Doublet of biscotte and bísquet/bísquete.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /biθˈkot͡ʃo/ [biθˈko.t͡ʃo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /bisˈkot͡ʃo/ [bisˈko.t͡ʃo] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -otʃo
- Syllabification: biz‧co‧cho
Noun
[edit]bizcocho m (plural bizcochos)
- sponge cake
- bisque (fired unglazed pottery)
- (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) cake
- (Argentina) a kind of salty cookie
- (Uruguay) Danish pastry
- Synonym: (Argentina) factura
- ellipsis of bizcocho de soletilla (“ladyfinger”)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Asturian: bizcochu
- → Basque: bizkotxo, bixkotx
- → Cebuano: biskotso
- → Fala: biscochu
- → Tagalog: biskotso
Further reading
[edit]- “bizcocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
bizcocho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - bizcocho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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